Heroic Qualities- Mother Teresa

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Background Traveled to Calcutta, India where taught history at St. Mary's Bengali Medium School

Eventually became principal after completing final vows as nun in May 1937- upon which time took traditional title of "mother"

Entire lifestyle and purpose changed at moment was privately instructed by Christ while on a train:-Orders were to work among run-down streets of Calcutta directly helping city's most poor and ill populationHeroic Qualities- Mother Teresaby Jessica LaFreniere

Heroic Quality 1Courageousness Heroic Quality 2DevotionHeroic Quality 3FaithfulnessLessonsFigurative lessons:Judgment restrains people from noticing good in others No man is an island People never given more than they can manage Don't wait for leaders to come- do that yourself person to person Do the work you do with love- makes a differenceBackgroundBorn on August 26 or 27, 1910 (or baptized depending on source) as citizen of Skopje, capital of Republic of Macedonia, located in India

Originally named Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu

Family descended from Albanian heritage, was a passionately Catholic family

Father died as reached young age of 8 in 1919 (in respects was a orphan with only her mother and faith to depend on)

Knew wanted to follow religious lifestyle at age of 12- at 18 years old joined Loreto sisters in Ireland as half-fledged nun (where took name Teresa)"Since Mother Teresa had taken a vow of obedience, she could not leave her convent without official permission. After nearly a

year and a half of lobbying...she left the Loreto convent

and wandered out into the city. After six months of basic medical training, she

voyaged for the first time into Calcutta's slums with no more specific goal than to aid "the unwanted, the unloved, the uncared for."- "Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta” by Bio.comDemonstrates courageous enough to never waver in intention of satisfying goal of help people most in need in Calcutta; even when required surrendering safety and security imbedded in living a convent lifestyle and extended time took."While looking for a home I walked and walked till my arms and legs ached... Then the comfort of Loreto [her former congregation] came to tempt me...Of free choice, my God, and out of love for you, I desire to remain and do whatever be your Holy will in my regard. I did not let a single tear come."- Wikimedia FoundationShowed eternal devotion to cause of giving aid to most poverty-stricken people of Calcutta, even with longing occasionally experienced to return to luxury of convent life"On 10 September 1946, Teresa experienced what she later described as 'the call within the call'...I was to leave the convent and help the poor while living among them. It was an order. To fail would have been to break the faith."- Wikimedia FoundationClarifies extreme faithfulness to trust in desires of God, never shifting in wish to impose and carry out decree of God, in relation to own life.Lessons ContinuedHistorical:-Directly modified future of multiple human lives by helping gain better health, education, and general lives through aid and supportProvided care for those with AIDSEstablished mobile health centers Set up orphanages Assembled settlement for outcastsCreated family clinicsConstructed nursing home over years between 1950s- 1960s across world RecognitionMother Teresa rightfully earned and deserved following honorifications: Jewel of India- which is the highest title granted to Indian citizensNowadays-obsolete Soviet Union's Gold Medal of the Soviet Peace CommitteeGreatest, achieved citation: 1979 Nobel Peace Prize

Given title of "Blessed Teresa of Calcutta" in beautification after death in 1997-meaning on way to become fully identified saint of Catholic Church-Uncovering of private letter to confidant in 2003, revealed experienced "crisis of faith" underwent through remaining 50 years of her life:Caused her memory to be preserved not only as: Self-sacrificing, intensely generous, completely inspirational, and caring Looked at as more identifiable and mortal figure in terms of society's view and recognition of her. RecommendationsRead an autobiography centered on her life and workWatch some of the interviews select people had with her Decide to memorize variety of messages left for people by perusing her claimed quotesWorks Cited• "Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta." Bio.com. A&E Networks Television, n.d. Web. 19 Nov. 2014.